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The closing bell rings at the New York Stock Exchange as the Dow concludes its best month in more than three decades, with gains propelled by expectations for a 2021 recovery based on coronavirus vaccine progress. The blue-chip index suffered a 0.9 percent drop in the session to finish at 29,638.64, but that's nearly a 12 percent gain for all of November, making it the best month since January 1987. The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 0.5 percent to 3,621.63, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 0.1 percent to 12,198.74. IMAGES
According to Reuters, a global gauge of stock markets fell below a two month low. On May 29th, MSCI's all-country world stock index fell about 1-percent with losses stretching across Asia, the US, and Europe. In Europe, the Stoxx 600 index fell 1.4-percent, while the euro was steady after two days of losses. On Wall Street, the top three markets on the New York Stock Exchange lost about 1-percent each. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 270-points, dropping over 1-percent.
Aid is airdropped into northern Gaza as the Israeli-Hamas war enters its seventh month. Talks in Cairo towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal have made "significant progress", Egyptian state-linked media reported Monday, more than half a year into the war started by the October 7 attack. IMAGES
Images of Rafah in the south of Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war that has killed thousands and devastated the Gaza Strip enters its seventh month, with talks towards a truce and a hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo. IMAGES